West Virginia 1941

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There’s a farmhouse in the valleySet in the shade of swaying pineWhere the morning sunshine glistens in the dewThere’s a family round the tableTwo kids you and IIt’s a lovely dream if only it were true.

But the farmhouse burnt down last summerAnd the crops have failed again nOur boy went off to war. He won’t be coming homeThere’s no shoes for our girl’s feet and there’s not enough to eatOur dreams are all we’ve left to call our own

And we prayed it would be betterFor ourselves and for the kidsAnd while it didn’t quite work out that wayWe sure dreamed it did